Wash your hands, folks: it's time to talk CONTAGION, Steven Soderbergh's absurdly prescient 2011 pandemic disaster film. We talk public health, hyperlink cinema, Soderbergh's evolving digital aesthetic, the nature of government, and the film's second life as a Covid lockdown classic. With a special Kate Winslet audio collage that Ian definitely asked for! Check it out.

Further Reading:

The Viral Underclass by Steven Trasher

Health Communism by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

Further Viewing:

OUTBREAK (Petersen, 1995)

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Kieślowski, 1991)

28 DAYS LATER (Boyle, 2002)

28 WEEKS LATER (Fresnadillo, 2007)

28 YEARS LATER (Boyle, 2025)

BUGONIA (Lanthimos, 2025)

JOE DIRT (Gordon, 2001)

Kate Winslet's 2020 hand-washing tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIpAnDHZHc

 

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